Job Description

Legl is a fast-growing, vertical B2B SaaS platform with a mission to bring the legal industry into the 21st century. We closed our Series B (May 2022), and we are scaling quickly on our next phase of growth. Boasting an award winning SaaS product, Legl is modernising the legal industry through innovative solutions which influence and improve upon how law firms interact with their clients. Encouraging and facilitating a digital age to an archaic industry, we are changing the experience for lawyers and customers alike. We launched in October 2019 and have built a large law firm customer base who love our product and our team. We have an agile, ambitious and collaborative team, with deep experience across design, tech and the industry. We put our employees first and are looking for people who can grow with us. We rely heavily on data and first principles decision-making. The Role We are recruiting for an ambitious and detail-oriented Accounts Assistant to join our expanding Finance team. Playing a crucial role in supporting our finance operations by maintaining accurate financial records and ensuring the business remains compliant in all areas of Finance. As a business we make data driven decisions quickly, iterate regularly and have huge ambitions for modernising the legal industry. Key Responsibilities: Accounts Payable

• Process supplier invoices and employee expenses in a timely manner, in accordance with company policies and ensuring accurate coding.
• Point of contact for both internal and external communications.
• Generating bi-weekly multi-currency payment runs
• Proactively look to improve processes

Accounts Receivable

• Raise monthly sales invoices
• Reconciling customer accounts
• Chasing clients for outstanding invoices
• Point of contact for both internal and external communications
• Proactively look to improve processes

Management Accounts

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  Supporting the Financial Controller to deliver balance sheet reconciliations in a timely manner

Other

• Bank reconciliations and bookkeeping
• Assistance with monthly payroll, including compiling the bank file for review by the Financial Controller
• Quarterly VAT return preparation for review by the Financial Controller
• Assistance with annual audit
• Assist the Financial Controller and Head of Finance with ad-hoc projects
• Any other tasks at the discretion of the Financial Controller and Head of Finance

How would we describe success? Success in this role after 6 months looks like:

• Owning and understanding all balance sheet reconciliations, and understanding is included in the balances
• Owning both the payable and receivable process and being the go-to person both internally and externally for all payable and receivable queries
• Understanding the related company policies to be able to confidently challenge anything out of policy
• Being a trusted partner in the Finance team by both the Financial Controller and the Head of Finance
• Being confident in proposing solutions to improve existing processes

About You:

• Team Player: Must be approachable. The ability to communicate and collaborate with colleagues is essential to success in this role.
• Reliable and Accountable: The successful candidate will demonstrate reliability and take ownership of their tasks and be accountable for timely delivery.
• Proactive: The ideal candidate anticipates needs, identifies areas for improvement, and takes the initiative to discuss potential solutions.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and share options: we all share in Legl\xe2\x80\x99s success
• Legl has a dynamic, remote-first culture, with a focus on making work work for you. We give generous budgets for home set-ups, co-working space use if you need or want it and access to office spaces for collaboration in person, no matter where you live
• Twice-annual offsites to get to socialise with your colleagues in person
• Opportunity to join a well-funded, post-Series B startup in our mission to make legal services better for everyone
• High impact work that really matters - success in this role will drive our growth and have a big impact on the business and our clients
• A focus on wellbeing with access to support sessions with a psychotherapist and a personal wellbeing budget of \xc2\xa3250 per year
• A learning and development budget of \xc2\xa31000 per year

Diversity We believe that having diverse teams in which everyone can be their authentic self is key to our success. We encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply.